{"id":9619,"date":"2021-07-29T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2021-09-15T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T14:58:04","slug":"open-access-publishing-seeks-to-improve-equity-but-article-processing-charges-may-have-the-opposite-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2021\/07\/29\/open-access-publishing-seeks-to-improve-equity-but-article-processing-charges-may-have-the-opposite-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access publishing seeks to improve equity, but article processing charges may have the opposite effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The current momentum<\/a> to increase open access (OA) publishing has been touted<\/a> as a way to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion in scientific research. However, to publish an article OA, authors must often pay an article processing charge<\/a> (APC), which can be thousands of pounds per article. A recent report<\/a>, published in Quantitative Science Studies<\/em><\/a>, suggests that certain authors are more able to pay APCs and, therefore, publish OA \u2013 potentially leading to bias.<\/p>\n

Dr Anthony Olejniczak<\/a> and Dr Molly J Wilson<\/a> evaluated over 1.6 million journal articles by 182,320 unique authors published in 25,894 journals between 2014 and 2018. They performed a regression model to assess the relationship between authors\u2019 individual characteristics (eg gender, professorial rank, institution, years since terminal degree) and the likelihood of their article(s) being published OA.<\/p>\n

The results showed that authors were more likely to publish OA if they were:<\/p>\n